So I'm here! I'm really here! We left this morning at 8am, and I am SO glad we caravanned together. I would not have known which way to go, what line to go in, and I certainly could not have managed the registering my car and filling out papers part. We went from window A to window B and then back to window A and then to window C and then back to window B and then finally back to window C before we could leave. It was WICKED confusing. But I got that all done, and there is now officially no place for anything around my rear-view mirror: the EZ pass is on the right, the NH inspection sticker is underneath, and now the Mexican registration is on the left (sadly, it ended up being kind of crooked, and there will be no fixing that until January).
It was all (mostly) painless, just lots of red tape. There was a hiccup with one girl, but it all worked out in the end, and we were on our way. Shrimp sellers at the toll booth, a donkey on the side of the road, one homeless dude (how NYC), 300 pesos, and two cut-out metal police cars on the side of the toll road later, we arrived at the school. There was some quick paperwork to fill out, and we got our keys. A ton of people were there just to greet us. There were teachers there to lead each of us to our apartments (usually someone who lives in your neighborhood), and they actually helped us unpack our cars. After we stopped at the best taco stand in Santa Catarina for lunch and my money (from The Mom) got refused for being too old, that is. The vendedora was having NONE of that 10 peso bill. They have apparently been out of circulation since 1997(!).
I will post pictures of the apartment later, but it is INSANE. And there is food in our fridge and in the cabinets, all courtesy of the parents' association. As you can tell, the school even ensured that our internet would be hooked up when we arrived. And because I have the most awesome roommate ever, even though I lost the coin toss, she let me have the big bedroom with the walk-in closet. Pictures will be posted later.
Everyone is just so amazing. There was dinner tonight at the high school assistant principal's house, and we met all the people who had flown in too, plus some of the admin. Everyone is SO amazing. We were riding with the high school technology coordinator and my 8th grade science teaching counterpart, and we ended up chilling on the tech coordinator's roof-top patio for a couple of hours.
Can I just reiterate again how amazing everything is?
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